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HYDE-SMITH COSPONSORS BILL TO ENCOURAGE DOCTORS TO PRACTICE IN RURAL AMERICA

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today addressed the shortage of physicians in rural areas with the introduction of the Rural Physician Workforce Production Act, a measure intended to ramp up the next generation of rural doctors.
 
Hyde-Smith is an original cosponsor of legislation, introduced by Senator Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), to expand the Graduate Medical Education (GME) program to...

HYDE-SMITH ANNOUNCES $2.7 MILLION FOR YOUTHBUILD PROGRAMS IN DELTA

Education-Apprenticeship Grants Going to Programs in Greenville, Clarksdale & Yazoo City

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today announced the award of almost $2.7 million to support three YouthBuild education and training programs in the Mississippi Delta.
 
Hyde-Smith, who has advocated for YouthBuild funding as part of her work on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said three U.S. Department of...

HYDE-SMITH THROWS SUPPORT BEHIND PERMANENT “DEATH TAX” REPEAL BILL

Enacting Permanent Repeal Would Help Next Generation Keep Family Farms, Businesses Alive

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today cosponsored legislation to repeal the federal estate tax or “death tax” permanently.
 
Hyde-Smith is an original cosponsor of the Death Tax Repeal Act (S.215), which would end Internal Revenue Service collection of punitive taxes imposed on family-owned farms, ranches, and...